NYU Tandon School of Engineering Assistant Professor Miguel Modestino is co-developer of the Solar Textiles project.

A waste-free fashion future is the bid behind the H&M Foundation's Global Change Award - an initiative launched in 2015 by the non-profit arm of retailer H&M.

Striving to speed up the enormous shifts needed to make that happen in an industry that is frequently referred to as one of the most damaging to the planet, this year’s winners show it’s down to the likes of old jeans, cow manure and grape byproducts to get us there.